In the category of "Too Much Time on their Hands" this year's winner is....
Fred Doyle
Homer CSS (http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/) and George Bush
CSS (http://www.romancortes.com/blog/bush-css/).
Two images rendered entirely with CSS and text. You got to love it. As
they said at slash-dot, it is the 2008 version of ascii art.
Fred
Shank
sweet. that Homer is stellar.
tomasio
Definitely. Great fun ; )
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Fred Doyle
Yeah the Bush one is fairly abstract, but since Homer is already a
drawing, that came out nearly perfect. I'll give the guy a lot of credit
for knowing CSS. I was impressed to see he wrote a program to automate
the process of creating these.
Fred
Fred Doyle
> On 2008-05-06 02:34:36 +0200, Fred Doyle <fdo...@nycap.rr.com> said:
>
>> Envelope please......
>>
>> Homer CSS (http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/) and George Bush
>> CSS (http://www.romancortes.com/blog/bush-css/).
>>
>> Two images rendered entirely with CSS and text. You got to love it. As
>> they said at slash-dot, it is the 2008 version of ascii art.
>>
>> Fred
>
> Definitely. Great fun ; )
Yeah, that's what's great about it, its fun, but demonstrates an
incredible level of skill.
Fred
Onideus Mad Hatter
wrote:
...I think not. It looks like ass and it has no style in and of
itself. ASCII art has a very unique style in and of itself which is
why it's popular and has remained popular. The same with other forms
like x-faces, avatars, blinkies, smilies, etc. They've all got a
particular style unique to their form and said style is often not
really an option so much as a derivative limitation of the form
itself, like how x-faces restrict you to two colors and icon sizes or
how avatars and smilies restrict the image size or how blinkies
restrict you to 256 colors and very basic animation effects. With
this crap the only "style" you get looks like the spastic crayon
dribblings of a 3 year old incoherently fumbling around in MS Paint
with a faulty mouse.
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Onideus Mad Hatter
wrote:
>tomasio wrote:
Not really, it's like Turtle Graphics for MS Paint:
http://img.zdnet.com/techDirectory/TURTGRAF.GIF
*snicker*
Quite a step backwards if you ask me. Not to mention that it likely
won't take someone very long to create a program that can accept any
image as its input and will then auto-generate CSS code to "rebuild"
the graphic. In fact, I could write such a program in about two
hours.
All it needs to do is look at each pixel value and then use a form
like:
: <div style="position:absolute; left:1px; top:1px; width:1px; height:1px background-color:red;">
Woah, hard. Here's a quick sample:
http://www.backwater-productions.net/_test_platform/CSS_Generated_Blooper.html
A blooper squid from Mario Brothers. See how simple that is? Just
assign a colored div to each pixel. Hell you could even do animations
like that...why the fuck you would want to I'm not sure, it certainly
would not be any kind of "technical achievement".
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Shank
> assign a colored div to each pixel. Hell you could even do animations
> like that...why the fuck you would want to I'm not sure, it certainly
> would not be any kind of "technical achievement".
Well rebuilding pixel art would be a lot simpler than compiling a code
that inserts random characters based on what the artwork needs, and
sizing them all. Yah it is pretty much a little afternoon fun for the
guy who created it. Not intended to be a technical advancement I
believe.